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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1913
Page
13
Cheyenne residents and visitors are listed with confirms of commissions, travels, and business in the Cheyenne Messenger Service notices. Names include Miss Nell Martin, Rev D G Dodie, J L Lull, Mary Cahill, C A Melin, Allan Laughlin, and many others across Cheyenne and nearby towns with travels to Denver Laramie Idaho and Los Angeles.
Local notices reference the Sherman Company in two items about business changes. One entry notes paper hanging services by The Sherman Co and another mentions mirror plating operations associated with the same firm.
Ben Costello is to spend the rest of his life in federal prison at Leavenworth for breaking into the Kinnear post office and outraging Mrs. Kinnear. Allan Harper received five years on each of two counts for falsifying bank books at the First National Bank in Laramie, with concurrent terms totaling five years. John Kirkpatrick gets 60 days in jail for selling liquor to Indians on the Wind River Reservation. All sentences were pronounced by Judge Riner yesterday morning. Harper and Costello will be taken to Leavenworth today by U S Marshal Patton and Deputy Show.
The county reports the S-horse power ram leveler and grader performed well during a test on P.O. road two and a half miles north of the city. Agent Farrar and Commissioner J. B. Sloan oversaw the trial, shaping forty rods of new road for winter travel and praising the machine’s ability to move dirt efficiently. They anticipate rapid use across many county roads to bring them to first class condition.
The Cheyenne Chautauqua seeks broad support to bring back a week of lectures, entertainments, and music. Readers are urged to redeem pledges and purchase season tickets, with the Leader office selling tickets and promising new features for children.
John G. Lins and FP Shenfelt, prosperous dry farmers from Divide, arrived in the city to file final proof for homestead entry. They report a fine rain nearby last night, noting it should boost their crop prospects and predict a favorable settlement on account 1013.
Fragmentary notes show an Elks club year end dance with mentions of attendees and numbers unclear. Readers cannot confirm names or exact event details from the garbled text.
The civil service commission will hold multiple exams in the city over the next two months to fill vacancies in departmental and classified service. July 7 exam for a sail biochemist opens to men with salaries 1800 to 2000 dollars yearly. June 25–26 ship draftsman exams in navy department pay 3.25 to 5.04 per diem for seniors or graduates of recognized technical schools. June 18 copyist ship draftsman and sanitary bacteriologist tests pay 2.40 per day and 1200 to 1500 yearly. open to men with strong high school education and ability to copy plans, with biology chemistry and bacteriology as subjects. An educational training equivalent to graduation in a scientific college program is required.
A. Piffield of St Catherines Ontario christens his Reo Model J Truck Samson claiming it earned the nickname by bringing down a two story Lelek stable. The feat followed by moving FiField goods to a country seat and tearing down the fallen walls with grappling chains before hauling away the bricks and slate.
The State Leader in the want ad medium of Wyoming reports Try Lt in a terse, pointed notice. The brief item hints at a continuing discourse within public listings, referencing leadership and campaign signaling in a frontier state context.
Railroad notes report Wyoming operations at Mar toneton and a levee plan on Sixteenth street side. At the UK annual convention of the International Railway Fuel association in Chicago, D Buell outlined gasoline motor cars and past troubles. he was elected second vice president. Union Pacific personnel shifts and reports on boiler and superheater tech were presented by C L Hempel and W L Park. Union Pacific’s line valuations rose by 4,000 dollars per mile and property valued at 51,192,539 dollars in Nebraska. Various officers and agents across Union Pacific and related lines announced resignations, new appointments, and changes in management, with locomotive additions totaling 49 engines adding 79,000 horsepower. New coal chute at Rock River nearing completion.
A helmeted telephone for mine rescuers works by throat vibrations with the transmitter at the throat. The report notes over 1900 boiler explosions yearly in the United States causing about 600 deaths and injuring 790 to 500 more, with property losses exceeding one million dollars.
Cincinnati reporter describes a medical drama where Dr. Kramer removes a brain tumor from a burglar to reform him. The operation, performed at Speer Hospital in Dayton Kentucky, is said to be physically successful though moral outcomes are uncertain.
A hotel arrivals column lists numerous guests from varied locales including J. J. Mellnuhan and family, Mrs. W. H. Bherlock, Landers Misa Radio Myers, C. W. Crowley, Landers, J. P. Hughes of Cheyenne, Harry G. Martin of Denver, Sidney W. Holbrook of Denver, Fred Harvey of Salt Lake, and others from Kansas City, Des Moines, New York, and Cheyenne among frequent visitors and families.
A decree issued by President Bolingharst of Peru sets required steps before a strike may start, including formal notification to the police. The State Leader is identified as the preferred Wyoming information channel.
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